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quantulus

quantulus

how little

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Where it lives

Densest 12 of 27 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

quantŭlus — Lewis & Short

quantŭlus, a, um,

I adj. dim. [quantus], how little, how small, how trifling (class.): nescio quantulum attulerit: verum haud permultum attulit, Plaut. Bacch. 2, 3, 86: corpora, Lucr. 3, 378: quantulum visum est, as much as seems good to him, Cic. Div. in Caecil. 17, 57: quantulus (sol) nobis videtur! Cic. Ac. 2, 26, 82: id autem quantulum est? how small? id. Leg. 2, 19, 47: quantula sint hominum corpuscula, Juv. 10, 172; Plin. 11, 5, 4, § 12: quantulum est mihi memoriae, as much as I remember, i. e. as little as, Gell. 17, 10, 9; Hor. S. 2, 3, 124; Plin. Pan. 8, 4.—Quantulus quantulus, for quantuluscumque, how little, how small, how trifling soever: aderant tres illi fratres cladibus amici quantulumquantulum ferentes auxilii, App. M. 9, p. 233, 35.—Neutr. adverb.: quantŭlum, how little: quantulum judicare possemus, Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 1, § 3.

In the wild

6 of 47 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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